Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) Drawings - The Complete Set of Ten

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Modern and Contemporary Art

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May 11, 2021

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A collection of Modern and Contemporary art including an etching from William Kentridge's Sleeper Series. Curated by David Weiss, Senior Vice President and Head of Sale for the Modern and Contemporary Art department at Freeman's. Freeman's info@freemansauction.com

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  Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) Drawings - The Complete Set of Ten

  1968, ink signed and numbered 106 on the justification page (from the edition of 230, there were also 20 unsigned and unnumbered sets), the full sheets, Atlantis Editions, New York, publisher, and with their inkstamp on the verso of each. With justification and text pages, original folders and portfolio case. The complete set of ten offset lithographs (one in color) on Rives BFK (plate X on Arches Cover).

  
  
  (each sheet: 25 1/16 x 19 in. (63.7 x 48.3cm))
  
  Qty: (10)
  
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  Note

  The present suite includes offset lithographic reproductions of some of the first abstract drawings created by Georgia O’Keeffe in 1915. At that time, the artist had completed art school and was living in the Texas Panhandle, having temporarily given up painting in favor of a teaching position. Of these early forays into abstraction the artist noted “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way - things I had no wish for.” [1] Later that year, O’Keeffe sent the drawings to a friend in New York who in turned showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. The renowned photographer and gallerist immediately recognized their quality and exhibited them the following year in his gallery. The 1916 exhibition was the beginning of a career that before many years established Georgia O’Keeffe as one of the foremost artists of the 20th century. Seven of the works in the present suite were included in the exhibition, and three others were executed later. Two of these are not abstractions, including Plate VII, “Banana Flower” and Plate X, “Rams Horns.” These remind us of the artist’s keen awareness of nature throughout her prolific and accomplished career.
  
  [1] Georgia O’Keefe, as quoted by Lloyd Goodrich in his introductory text, Georgia O'Keeffe Drawings, New York: Atlantis Editions, 1968.

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